rafter

1. 1.

   provide (a ceiling) with rafters

   Broadersupply

   architecture

Other forms of rafter

plural

rafters·

past tense

rafterred·

present participle

rafterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rafter

What does rafter mean?

rafter means "one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rafter?

rafter has 2 syllables: raf-ter. The stress falls on "raf". In IPA it is /ˈɹæftɚ/.

What is another word for rafter?

Close synonyms include balk, baulk, raftsman, raftman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rafter a common word?

rafter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rafter?

2 words rhyme with rafter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.